They have recently been on stage in Russia. In the weekend, Motorpsycho returned to Trøndelag and played for fans and old friends.

"Someone told me that being here is almost like standing in the bar at Credo in 2005," says Bent Sæther. He explains that the restaurant served as a meeting place for many of the people present at the festival.

Saturday evening, Motorpsycho was on stage at Stokkøya Festival. The festival area was packed with eager audiences singing with full neck. Adresseavisen talked to the band after the sound check Saturday, and they could tell that they enjoyed the nice surroundings on the island.

"It's super nice to be here in Stokkøya. I've been hanging a bit on Hosnasand through the ages of the 1990s, but have not been there for the last ten to fifteen years. There have been incredible things since then, the guitarist Hans Magnus Ryan tells.

- It's a good idea to be here. A lot of good people who do good things. It is always fine, says Bent Sæther.

Motorpsycho has many fans who often follow them around on tours. Sæther says they have noticed crowds in Motorpsycho merch on Stokkøya.

"There are also many friends and friends we've known at all times. This is really like a big friend's party for us, says Ryan.

- Someone told me that being here is almost like being in the bar at Credo in 2005. The bar was the hangout place for a lot of the people who are here now. So there is such an environment that has moved here to the island, it seems, "says Sæther.

- Nice to play at the festival in Russia

May 18, they were on stage during the Russian festival SKIF Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival in St. Petersburg. A country they have never played before.

"It was great to play in another country. The old communist structure hangs a little again, so in each door is a car whose only job is to open the door for you. If you have the right passport. It's a bit cumbersome like that, but it's only permeated throughout the community. But playing there was awesome and very stupid, says Sæther.

As such, it has been a good spring for the band, he believes.

"We have played in Serbia, Slovenia, Romania and the countries there for the first time. So it's nice to break up a little new reason.

The band says that there is a difference in the audience in Norway and Russia.

"Here we are in a way a cultural institution, everyone knows what it's all about and have a relationship with us whether they want or not. While away, we are brand new, so it's not ready yet, says Sæther.

He thinks he's fine.

"There are all kinds of people of all ages. It's fun and works well.

- What feedback have you received?

"Come back as soon as possible," says Sæther.

- Yes, we received very good feedback, Ryan is shooting.

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Kristoffer Lo is with Motorpsycho on game jobs this summer. "It was very nice to have him on, he is an incredibly nice guy," says Sæther.

- Not all we would do in the same way today

Recently, the band released "A Boxful of Demons" with live recording from Rockheim in 2015, among which they played the entire "Demon Box" album from 1993.

- How was going through old songs on ny?

- It's a very nice plate. One hears a kind of deathlessness about indifference in what they are doing. You get a little fond of them and exalted on their behalf. But that's not all we'd done in the same way today, you've changed your mind, Sæther says.
Proud of live record

Motorpsycho recently released live album from the European Tour this autumn, and this was Thomas Järmyr's first tour of the band. Sæther explains that they are an expansive live band and that they have some kind of jazz thinking on stage.

- The song is a kind of parameter and you play all that you can get on top of that parameter until you are done. And you do not do that in a studio, then you play a composition and make the potential of it the way it is intended. When playing the same song, live a hundred times, change the way you hear and watch them. Then there are other things. A song that lasts for seven minutes can last for half an hour.

Motorpsycho recently released live albums from the european culture this fall. This was Thomas Järmyr's drummer's first tour with the band. Photo: Kristin Slotterøy

He says that documenting this side of the band is important to them.

- That's because the resolve is important to people, that's what they come to look at. Documenting this on the record is very important to us, it is a page not found on the discs recorded in the studio. So this is a disc that does not contain easy-to-understand music, you have to sit down and go into it. But I think the payoff is very straightforward. In any case, when I listen to it, I am very proud that we made this happen, says Sæther.

Aggregate festival in Sardinia

In 2010, the band played on a beach in Sardinia, and playing at Stokkøya Festival describes them as a Norwegian version of what they did then. With a clarification that the festival at Stokkøya is organized in a proper way and has something to do.

"In Sardinia we had a party party far out on a sea shore without light and proper flow," says Ryan.

"But it's a bit of the same feeling. There we played in the sunset, and there were 35 warmths when we started and rocked when we finished. Pretty dramatic, but very nice, says Sæther.